It is going to be a long summer with no work to keep me busy.



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don't mind if I do.

Not really a metal guy but find myself blasting SOAD in my car lately. Serj Tankian has an incredible voice.

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I was given the book The Philosophy of Modern Song, by Bob Dylan, for Xmas. Dylan riffing on 20th Century popular music and culture. He's better at writing songs than picking them IMO.

"Any time you mention a river in America you are thinking about the Mississippi. A beautiful, wide flowing body of water that rolls down the middle of America. And everything that that conjures up. The Clash are talking about the Thames. But in America you can't help but think Mississippi. And this is what gives this particular song such broad appeal. All hell is breaking loose, but the guy is still living by the river, which gives him some type of hope, and a way to escape from any difficulty."

Was this one of the picks you didn't like? (I liked this book.)

His choice of Pump It Up by Elvis Costello pissed me off. But perhaps I'm being harsh. I'm still working my way through the book to find the real Americana...

There are times when I'm feeling low and the world is cold, and Fred Astaire and this song always helps, especially in its original context.



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Listening to "Wish You were here" by Pink Floyd.

Buried my son 2 years ago today at the age of 23.

He loved music and Pink Floyd.

Got mad at me when I told him I had the opportunity to see them on the "Momentary Lapse of Reason" tour and didn't.
Mad at myself too.

When I'm low, this for me...

Hope you are OK. I don't think I could make it through ths whole track were I in your shoes. Best of wishes.

thanks.

Strangely this song brings sadness and yet, comfort.

Many songs we shared in enjoying I cannot listen to anymore.

This is enough for me to show you were a kind and loving father.

Peace, Eeyorefora.

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45 years ago today…my favorite album was released



I danced about in my pajamas playing air guitar like a fool every day for about a year listening to it. I was 15.

Saw The Cars open for The Kinks at a less than half-full Springfield (MA) Civic Center in '78 - before the album broke through. Right after their set ended with this, Cathy Carabine turned & said, "Those guys are f***ing good." Cathy, rest her soul, was illustrious & intense,

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have always been amazed by Santana -

he just about always hits the perfectly right notes at the perfectly right times - and gets fantastic tone too -

he's a gift to all of us

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Irma Thomas ITT. Smooch.



JC never ceases to amaze me.

Truthfully, I heard Irma Thomas for the first time a couple days ago and fell in love with her singing immediately. Then found out she did the original of Time Is On My Side.

Some singers, Alberta Hunter, Abbey Lincoln, Tom Waited, Ella, just stand out the first time you hear them. Irma did that for me.

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Everything's gonna be all right
Everything's gonna be ok
It's gonna be a good, good life
That's what my therapists say...

Now, some guys they just give up livin'
And start dyin' little by little, piece by piece
Some guys come home from work and wash up
Then go racin' in the streets